Last month, Eskom presented plans to change its electricity price structure to the National Energy Regulator of South Africa. This…
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We always hate to be the bearer of bad news but technically it’s Eskom that comes bearing ill tidings. As…
It’s no secret that a global push to minimise carbon emissions is underway. It’s also no secret that South Africa’s…
Even though the name and house number were wrong, the address was for an entirely different street and the electricity…
What with the stressful and constant pandemic updates, it’s easy to forget that South Africa’s facing more than one problem.…
Because in this strange, obviously absurdist timeline wherein we find ourselves living it can only be logical to assume that…
Your struggle for power doesn’t have to be a massive struggle. We’re all rocking electric devices and those devices make life easier when it comes to power outages. The trick is keeping those devices topped up when Eskom’s out — three hours of gaming on a Nintendo Switch will ding the battery pretty hard. There is an obvious answer, though: batteries.
Vodacom has resorted to using diesel generators to prop up some older cellular towers, which are battling with Eskom’s constant outages. We asked the company what plans it hard to mitigate issues the country’s power provider is causing for the network.
South Africa’s energy crisis has many dimensions, from political and economic to technical and environmental. Recently, the country’s power utility, Eskom, has been generating only about 60% of its capacity and has had to restrict usage to prevent a regional blackout.